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Commentaire de SquireKel

As it is currently, this is a lot of text with nothing really breaking it up. The information is good, but the presentation could be enhanced. I'd suggest looking at Guide Writing for Dummies to see ways to include a table of contents, links, and images.

Commentaire de hdm210

Commentaire de Fir3shadow

Actually, one thing to keep in mind for Enlightenment, is that you would want to refresh it just before it expires, as it will be a 2 hour duration when it gets refreshed, regardless of how much time was left on the previous Enlightenment. (I've already tested this myself)

Also, keep in mind that quests give full experience until they turn grey. That means that you can complete quests in a zone up to 5 levels lower then yourself (allowing for a very quick and very easy questing experience) and still gain full experience from the quest rewards.

Edit: A fix was implemented a while ago that makes it where Enlightenment no longer refreshes the duration, but now seems to stack in-definitely (I stacked it up around 9 hours).

Commentaire de Saltychip

I've been following your guide and I'm level 82 with about 2 days 10 hours played so I think this is a great guide. I probably would be around 2 days played without leveling enchanting and other things like that.

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Commentaire de ZelgiusEU

3 days can be done with heirlooms WITHOUT enlightenment buff. I did 85 as a monk in less than 2 days playtime. Also Scholazar Basin requires a minimum level of 76 and I also suggest you dont que a lot for dungeons and finish the zones starting in outland in one go, meaning don't log out and don't change zones. The enlightment buff won't go off if you stay in the zone and don't log out even if the time expires. From 1 - 60 you can't abuse this since you fly through zones.

Never queue for pvp if it isn't random or isn't call to arm since the exp is absolutely horrible.

Commentaire de sum12321

Has anyone else noticed strange lag issues that only occur while playing a monk? Whenever i target something my screen freezes for about half a second and I don't know how to fix it. Any help would be great.

Commentaire de sildani

First, thank you for writing this guide. Started my first Monk a couple days ago, already level 18 (probably with a /played time of two hours). Will follow this guide to level quickly.

Second, I have a question: why do you advise to sometimes queue for specific dungeons, and otherwise queue for randoms? I'm curious, and couldn't figure it out. Thanks!

Commentaire de PostalHead

Also, in Darkmoon Faire, there's a carousel which gives the buff "WHEEE!" that grants 10% xp for a duration dependant on the time you spend on the carousel. The max of it is 60 min.

Commentaire de Surpass

Thank you for the very helpful guide, would love to see more to come!

Commentaire de Maulis425

Great guide, it doesn't even have to be exactly for monks; I've used your basic theory for most of my leveling since the LFD tool was introduced. Keep up the work.Oh, and the guide looks good too.

Commentaire de RvdBerg

Cool guide, I just dinged 85 on my Paladin in less than 3 days total time as tank, but now I want a pure DPS spec again. Might try your guide to burn through those levels.

Commentaire de megamike

Not sure if anyone else has noticed this, but the trick of waiting for your Enlightenment to get close to expiring and then doing the daily again to refresh it to 2 hours doesn't really give you 2 hours.. sure it says that, but say you had 9 minutes left, well after you refresh it and it shows 2 hours do some questing and after 10 minutes you will see it say 59 minutes..

yes it DOES stack.. but it don't refresh the first one back to an hour :(

Another thing to note, you mention the cost of the buff food being 90 copper? that would be for those that are in a guild that has the perk that gives 10% off vendor items.. my guild is almost there, but it cost me 1 silver.. still very CHEAP.. but in fairness of accuracy I thought I would mention this :)

also this is a GREAT guide.. so far I went from level 12 to level 40 in just over a day (real time)

Commentaire de Berrypuddin

I really like your guide. I took some of the tips from your guide and used them with questing guides from ding85.com to get to 90 in 2days 19hrs without any heirloom gear.One thing I think you might want to rethink is the importance of dungeons and battlegrounds. My rule of thumb for using the LFD tool was only queue when you had a 50% chance or greater to get a dungeon you haven't done yet. If you are questing optimally then you should get more exp per minute then from running a dungeon you can't do quests in. I like questing more than bg lvling and dungeon lvling though, so it may vary by person.

Commentaire de Dracodan93

You might want to add a suggestion to upgrade all vendor gear(The ones that cost JP) to the next level...(Just a warning to that, you lose your enchants when you do that)

But if you have the BoA's till 95 you don't have to buy/gain near gear for 5 more levels(The BoA gear isn't bad at those levels.)

Just a suggestion though...

Commentaire de Cheekyman

despite guide is very helpful - main question is:

how does it do in comparison to death knight which starts from 55lvl against all those enlightenment etc.? if looking for fast leveling craft profession alt? for e.x. till 85lvl? 2nd question till 90 lvl? ty in advance

(i dont care much about fun etc - just time saving (leveling mostly dungeons / tank most of the time)

Commentaire de alkan90

nice review ^_^ . . you helped me

Commentaire de gpxsis

Stopped reading as soon as I saw "Noxxic"

Commentaire de JoshuaCG

Hey, plan on making a monk so i read your guide and was wondering: Do you know how long it would take without heirloom items?

Commentaire de ericoahu

Sholazar Basin is not available for quests until 76.

Also, why stay in Borean Tundra so long? The quests in Dragonblight and Grizzly Hills grant more xp. I typically head to those as soon as they open up.

Commentaire de jaxsonbateman

My monk is currently at 1d10h34m, being about 3 bars into level 85, so I feel qualified to offer my opinions on this.

TL;DR: always play with rested (unless you're levelling in a way that won't use rested, like pet dailies). From 20, do monk daily every day. From 70, do cooking, fishing and Gurubashi Arena dailies every day (do everything you can to get a 280% speed mount by this point). At 85, switch your levelling method to non-Pandaria pet dailies, cooking, fishing, monk and arena dailies. Method works with non-monk classes too (sans the monk buff), and results in very low /played times, though takes more real time to level thanks to having to wait for rested to accumulate (great method if you are levelling a bunch of alts concurrently).

Firstly, it was a Pandaren monk. Using the method I will outline below, Pandaren is arguably the best levelling race, simply due to Inner Peace giving you double rested experience.

In terms of levelling, the pattern I followed with the monk - as with all toons I play with - was to level to 15 (doing my first log out when I hit the first inn, then only playing while I have rested experience to burn, usually waiting 7-10 days so that I have at least one whole level of rested), then at 15 doing LFD runs (as tank or healer if my class will allow me) every 10 days to burn through the 60 bars of rested that had been accumulated (thanks to Enlightenment, this actually goes by very quickly).

As soon as I reach the first main zone (ie. Durotar, Tirisfal Glades etc) I try and get an invite to a level 25 guild so that I get access to perks. At the very least, I'll run to the capital city at the end of my first play session, and look around in trade and the guild search page until I can find the invite. I also never level without heirlooms, except for the panda starting zone where you can't get them.

From level 20, I would do the monk daily every day - it offers great experience for the very little time invested, and Enlightenment stacks (I believe it used to be up to at least 3 days; now it caps out at 24 hours), so doing it every day is quite profitable for your /played. I'm pretty sure since level 20 I've never played without having Enlightenment up.

From level ~67, I started dual-boxing the monk (this applies to my other toons too) through dungeons. I found that at this point, the sheer speed at which I could run through a dungeon on one of my lv 90s through dungeons was much better than in groups, and levelling was actually quite efficient (I feel like at lower levels it's either too slow, or you suffer a penalty or something - I just don't recall it being very efficient up until mid-late BC dungeons). A level 90 that isn't in terrible gear should be able to boost a toon through every non-heroic dungeon up until MoP (haven't tried the early MoP instances yet, though I know I've solo'd n-Brewery on a well geared ret paladin).

From level 70, I started doing the cooking and fishing dailies in Orgrimmar. They're tuned so a level ~10 can do them, but their experience reward scales with level. Basically, the easiest XP you can imagine. The reason why I wait until level 70 is so that I have a 280% speed flying mount to blitz through them with, rather than having to trod along on a ground mount (this is far more forgiving for alliance toons in Stormwind, especially if you have an Azure Water Strider so that you can get across without bridges). I also start doing the Gurubashi Arena daily, for the same reason. It's a little more travel than the cooking and fishing, but it's good experience for how easy it is (just don't do it too close to chest time), and the travel isn't too bad thanks to the Dark Portal ports in Org, and Stormwind's proximity to STV.

I think that's just about it. I'm pretty stingy, so I don't worry about pots, or food, or anything like that. Just LFD and go. I make sure I do all the non-Pandaria pet dailies though, on a toon that has 280%+ flight speed. Preferably my highest level toon - and I avoid levelling 85+ toons without using pet dailies, as I find Pandaria questing to be slow and tedious. Typically, it takes 10 days of pet dailies (+cooking, fishing and Gurubashi arena) to get from 85 to 90, and for those you don't need gear or skill or anything. Pretty sure at this rate I'll get under 2 days played for my monk to 90.

Oh, and for the love of jeebus - if you have a 90 toon that will boost you through them, try and do the Ring of Blood/Amphitheater of Anguish/Crucible of Carnage series of fights in BC/Wrath/Cata. The fact that you do ~5-6 quests that award good exp for their level in quick succession tends to be a dramatic boost to your levelling. To put it into context, at the points you do them they're probably better xp/hr than doing the cooking and fishing dailies in Org, which are great xp/hr.